PBPost: Should Lake Worth allow religious invocations before city meetings?

Satan’s specter haunts Lake Worth’s city hall, where a secular activist wants to invoke his name in a public prayer.

Earlier this month, the city drew controversy when four of the five commissioners walked out on an atheist activist leading a polytheistic invocation.

Angered by their actions, Broward County blogger and activist Chaz Stevens has asked to open a Lake Worth commission meeting with a Satanic prayer.

As Stevens told The Post’s Chris Persaud, he doesn’t believe in Satan. His prayer would be a piece of performance art to “show separation of church and state, equal protection for all religions.” He added that his point “is to really, really irritate the religious right.”

The Supreme Court earlier this year upheld the right of government agencies to permit denominational prayer at public meetings.

As The Post reported, roughly half of Palm Beach County’s cities start their meetings with a prayer or invocation.

Stevens says his aim is to get cities to get rid of these invocations altogether.

It’s an aim that some Lake Worth officials seem to share. City Manager Michael Bornstein told The Post this month that he just wants to “go to a moment of silence to stop all this stupidity and madness.”

Should Lake Worth allow religious invocations before city meetings? What do you think?